I've heard of (and even sometimes used) video players like VLC when Windows Media Player prompts me to download "new codecs", but I've also heard people talk about codec packs like K-Lite, Shark007, ...

In the old days, the codec pack for movie playback was badly behaved, and on the contrary there was something like going to be stupid because the movie that was playable until now can not be played ...

You can use the following solutions to fix this 0x80070016 error in the Movies & TV app in Windows 11/10. Before that, play the video again (if not already) and see ...

I wanted to play .FLV files in Windows Media Player and so I downloaded and installed the K-Lite Codec Pack. This worked in letting me play .FLV files. However, after installing K-Lite, my YouTube ...

A new video codec has been made available for Video Streaming and Playback services to use over H.264 and H.265 or HEVC. This new codec is being called AV1. It is an open and royalty-free video coding ...

Microsoft has announced that it will add hardware acceleration support for the Aomedia Video 1 (AV1) video codec to Windows 10 this fall. AV1 is an open, royalty-free codec intended to provide ...